EA Sports software engineer slams Wii U on Twitter
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Update: Summerwill’s tweets have been removed, so we’ve added in a screencap of his more-recent comments instead.
This hasn’t been a good month for the Wii U in terns of EA news.
A few weeks ago, DICE’s Frostbite technical director Johan Andersson said that Frostbite 3 has never been running on Wii U while Frostbite 2 tests were “not too surprising”. EA ended up announcing Frostbite Go for mobile platforms just a couple of days ago.
And just recently, EA confirmed that it isn’t working on any Wii U games. When asked why the publisher isn’t bringing FIFA to the console this year, a spokesperson pointed to poor sales of last year’s release.
Unfortunately, things haven’t stopped there. EA Sports senior software engineer Bob Summerwill has pretty much trashed the Wii U on Twitter, calling it “crap” and “Less powerful than an Xbox 360.” The console’s online store and GamePad were also criticized. And that was only one tweet.
Here’s the full roundup of Summerwill’s quotes:
Yakuza 1 & 2 HD – Japanese Nintendo Direct presentation
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Resident Evil: Revelations dev diary #4 – “Mystery”
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Nintendo and SEGA have one more exclusive Sonic game to reveal
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Nintendo and SEGA announced two new Sonic games today. Sonic Lost World and Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games both made their debuts during the Nintendo Direct.
But that’s not all. A third, mysterious game is in development as well, according to a press release sent by SEGA. We don’t know anything about it – will it be for both the Wii U and 3DS? Just one platform? And when will it be revealed?
Stay tuned!
New Super Luigi U screenshots
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Yes, Smash Bros., 3D Mario, and Mario Kart will be on the next Nintendo Direct
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Considering that a new Nintendo Direct is less than a month away, today’s presentation wasn’t too shabby. But really, it’s the next broadcast that everyone will be paying attention to.
Satoru Iwata temporarily took over the Nintendo of America Twitter account to re-re-confirm (I’m making that up!) that Smash Bros., 3D Mario, and Mario Kart will be featured on the next Nintendo Direct. Other Wii U titles will be shown, too.
#IwataSays We will discuss new Smash Bros., 3D Mario game, Mario Kart and other Wii U titles in our #NintendoDirectNA before the start of E3
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) May 17, 2013
English translation of Iwata Asks: Game & Wario now live
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Nintendo has gone live with the English translation of the Iwata Asks: Game & Wario discussion. You can find six pages of talk about the Wii U game here. In addition to Satoru Iwata, Yoshio Sakamoto and a couple of other staffers participated in the conversation.
EA: No FIFA 14 for Wii U due to poor FIFA 13 sales
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EA doesn’t have any games in development for Wii U. That includes FIFA 14, which would typically be the kind of game you would expect on a console.
It’s true that EA did put out FIFA 13 for the Wii U’s launch. But due to the title’s poor sales, this year’s release won’t be heading to the console.
An EA spokesperson told Eurogamer:
“Ten months ago FIFA 13 was a launch title on Wii U. Although the game featured FIFA’s award-winning HD gameplay and innovative new ways to play, the commercial results were disappointing. We have decided not to develop FIFA 14 on Wii U.”
